The Autocrat at the Breakfast Table by Holmes, Oliver Wendell - circa 1900

University of Michigan Library, 2009. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Humphrey Milford, 1923. Hardcover. Good. 1923. 1923 Reprint. 271 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Boards are a little warped.

The Gresham Publishing Company, 1111. Hardcover. Good. No Edition Remarks. 390 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering. Black and white pictorial frontispiece. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

Thomas Y Crowell Company, 1900-01-01. Leather. Acceptable. Fair+ leather (suede). SCARCE SUEDE 1900 PRINTING. PAGES CLEAN AND UNMARKED. Covers (green suede) show light edge wear and are rubbed and faded. Inside covers have tearing of paper backing near hinge. Front group of pages (blank end papers up to copyright page) are loose from binding but present.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Houghton, Mifflin and Company. Volume one in the Standard Library Edition of The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes. Blue cloth with leather label on spine. Some cracks to hinges . Good. Hardcover. 1892.

Cosimo Classics, 2005-11-01. Paperback. Good.

New York: The Heritage Press, 1955. Hardcover. Good +. R.J. Holden. 7 ¼” x 10 ½” Missing slipcase. Grey cloth boards with pasted down illustrative plates on front and back. Gilt lettering on spine somewhat faded. Edges straight. Corners very lightly rubbed. Soiling to covers. Large pink stain to rear board. Foxing to edges of textblock. Expected age-tanning to pages. Pages unmarked. Binding tight. A really beautiful Heritage Press edition of Oliver Wendell Holmes’s classic collection of essays. Fiction

Boston: The Riverside Press, for Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1889. Hardcover. Good. 16mo 6" - 7" tall. Sturdy, still moderately attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copies, complete in two volumes. Bound in rubbed brown marbled paper over boards, pebbly leather over tips and spine. Five raised bands to each spine, rubbed gilt lettering, rubbing to, scuffing of tips, edges, spine head, foot, chip missing to spine bottom of one volume. Not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Marbled endpapers are quite fine. Author's Preface notes the backdrop of the work's first completion in 1857 and publication the following year. x, 1-203 pp.; frontis matter [1], 206-442 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Henry Frowde, 1909. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. A few small spots to the rear board, else very good with clear and unmarked pages.

Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1863. early reprint. hardcover. Good. 8vo, brown embossed cloth binding, corners rubbed, stains on some page edges, ink splashes on lower margin of last few pages, owner's gift dedication in fine calligraphy, index, 373 pages" .